HM3: No longer only the lonely

Companions are now live in the HeroMachine 3 Alpha. I've got fifty cool new friends for your main dude, from your old favorites to all-new additions like more dragons, a big ol' squid, scary new griffons, adorable Wonder Dogs, and much more. Take a look and let me know what you think, any items you wish were in but aren't, etc.

Note that BigWeapons and Vehicles will be their own sets in either Backgrounds or the to-be-added Environment.

Here's a comparison of some of the Companions in 2.x and their new redrawn 3.0 versions:

Cool! Maybe it’s due to the fact that I just finished listening to a series of audio clips about H. P. Lovecraft, but to me your squid looked a bit like Cthullu Junior! 🙂

Glad to hear we will be getting a vehicles subset. That’s something I’ve wanted for a long time. Awesome work so far. Jeff. This thing is really starting to take shape. It’s gonna be so freakin’ cool when it gets all done. I can’t wait! I’m especially interested to see what female characters are gonna look like.

Regarding the companions portion of the duplicated list, as someone in the other thread mentioned, humans are sort of pointless since you can basically generate your own now. I don’t have any clue what a Trent or Dark Matter are, I have two griffins, lots of dragons, and lots of dogs.

The others weren’t interesting to me and seemed to have limited utility, or were too wide in scope, so I didn’t draw them and probably will not. And of course I am, as I have said twice now, nowhere near working on auras yet.

Finally, please don’t cut and paste repeatedly like this, it’s really distracting, especially when three fourths of the list is either already done or not in the planning stages yet.

Don’t get angry — I’m not — I’m just telling you the best way to get your suggestions heard. Cutting and pasting and ignoring the sets currently released and under active development makes me just skip the entire comment, basically.

@Matt: Robots are one of those areas that’s so broad I couldn’t even scrape the surface in Companions as pre-drawn entities. The two I have in there are likely going to be it, frankly. More cyborg/robot pieces in Body is something I’d like to do though, yes.

Weird. These have animals eyes, don’t see eyes on Item > Head > Animals {{cough}}

Dragon-ish companions are very cool add-ons. Digging the cephlapod — goes great with kids! Griffons showcase the enhanced art well.

Would be nice to have two-color rich fur (a la, ‘Hair’ items with ‘sheen’) on the one color-ish HM3 Companions to enhance their re-usability. Notably, the wolves, dogs, and cats on the first ‘page’ of Companions. (More work, more payoff!) Even along the lines of the HM3 ‘Panther’ coloration (pg3, row3, item3).

Cool one Jeff. I like the Squid (Doctor Squid’s coming…). By the way, didn’t you do a kind of mind flayer-ish head? I don,’t find it.

Companions I’d like to see:

Two more cats: The Persian (the James Bond villain cat) and the Siamese (oriental). If you wanna do a Sphynx cat (nude cat), you’re welcome!

A small dog a la chihuahua.

A Doberman (useful for villains)

A Big Japanese Monster (Kaiju) example: Godzila, Mothra etc… Maybe it could be its one category, complete with big robots to go with them. Or maybe a Mecha Machine could be another mini some years in the future…

Umm, horses, pretty pretty please? One standing on the side HM2-style, and one standing behind the character, facing forward.

And it would be nice to have some that interact more with the character, like a cat that’s rubbing against its leg (I’m leaving out the parallel dog example…), or a snake wrapped around the character’s neck (or is that neckwear?)

I am done with Companions for now. If there’s enough demand for additional items, I’ll do a follow-up set down the line, but I think this is a very solid Standard compilation and it’s time to move on to Belts.